Re: Your Cadillac STS Bose Audio System Rating

I wouldn't be surprised if Bose engineers adjusted amplifiers' equalization to compensate for the frequency response of the drivers used. When drivers are replaced with other designs, sound reproduction may be inaccuarate. Inaccurate can sound 'better' than the orginal; it becomes a matter of opinon.

This touches on a long-standing debate among audiophiles. Should a system make the program sound the best it can or produce an accuarate reproduction. IE, do you use an equalizer or set tone controls 'flat'.

Re: Your Cadillac STS Bose Audio System Rating

Originally Posted by EChas3

I wouldn't be surprised if Bose engineers adjusted amplifiers' equalization to compensate for the frequency response of the drivers used. When drivers are replaced with other designs, sound reproduction may be inaccuarate. Inaccurate can sound 'better' than the orginal; it becomes a matter of opinon.

This touches on a long-standing debate among audiophiles. Should a system make the program sound the best it can or produce an accuarate reproduction. IE, do you use an equalizer or set tone controls 'flat'.

Sounds like someone knows a little about audio systems...

To me, Bose = Crap. I wish I could remove it all, but with how the car was designed with the stereo wrapped around the car, unfortunately it'll have to do. I'll never have Bose in the house.

Bose always has left out certain frequencies to make their speakers sound better than they truly are.

Re: Your Cadillac STS Bose Audio System Rating

I agree with the Bose = Crap sentiment. However, I believe it is more Bose < Advertised, but still good, not great, normally. That being said, I do love this system (15 speakers) and love to listen to the DTS content out there. Awesome. This particular Bose system is awesome in my opinion.

Re: Your Cadillac STS Bose Audio System Rating

Hi, the speakers in the seats seem to work when in the base,mid,high adjusting area. Bottom button to the far left says "Center". I can tell a difference with no problem. I voted "I love it" also but agree that when I want the fist in the chest bass it lacks just a hair. I was thinking of possibly swapping out the subwoofer or adding another one. Dont get me wrong I think it sounds great but I also want to hear and feel the explosion in the back ground. Not on every song, not at every light and I am considerate when entering neighborhoods to turn it down a bit or put up the windows. This is the first Caddy that I have owned but surely wont be the last. Thanks

Re: Your Cadillac STS Bose Audio System Rating

Originally Posted by Hoosier24

Far and away the best oem system i've ever listened to. The only thing I would like is slightly stronger rear subwoofer performance. More for imaging than anything else.

ive noticed the manufacturers pull bass when the volume is cranked so the sub seems like its weaker lol, when i took oem radio out and threw in hu and kept bose amps and speakers the sub didnt get dialed down, but im not replacing my nav in my sts like i did in my dts so i guess ill deal with it

Re: Your Cadillac STS Bose Audio System Rating

Originally Posted by Charles Warren

ive noticed the manufacturers pull bass when the volume is cranked so the sub seems like its weaker lol, when i took oem radio out and threw in hu and kept bose amps and speakers the sub didnt get dialed down, but im not replacing my nav in my sts like i did in my dts so i guess ill deal with it

Yeah it is like a self protection against blowing out your speakers, along with allowing the system to continue to seem to get louder vocally in an almost unlimited fashion with limited power.
About the best you could do would be to try using some line level convertors and aftermarket amp and running them to your OEM sub (or replacing that with a free-air sub) and having that amp setup with a higher gain that it doesn't seem to fade away much. Maybe if you could tap into pre-amp output from the HU to the OEM AMP you could run that to the aftermarket amp and it wouldn't have any fade and would also free up wattage to be used on the individual channels that would otherwise be directed to that OEM sub.
IF this system is like the Bose in my 02 Deville DTS than if you have the OEM sub disconnected the AMP will not output any signal.
So if that is the case I assume it is still receiving so if you disconnected the OEM sub and were able to get the pre-amp line levels you would save that output wattage in the OEM amp.

I feel like I might be talking in circles here but hopefully someone else can make sense of this.

Originally Posted by Slee_Stack

Do NOT buy a DVD-Audio disc soley for the purpose of SURROUND sound in the STS. The system CANNOT play multi-channel DVD-A. It can only play DTS and DD encoded tracks in surround.

Buy the DTS-CD.

A little late to quote but incorrect information is not good.

Not that it matters much at this point but the STS can play DVD-Audio in surround multi channel.
You just need to select the right 'group' during playback.
I have one DVD-A disk that is a multichannel (Staind 14 Shades of Grey DVD-A) to get 5.1 playback I need to select 'group 4' for playback from the search button while not moving.
That contains the multichannel playback. The other 'groups' are other various quality sound.